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October 4, 2024

Does Free Grace Encourage or Give License to Sin?

1 John 1:9, Confession, Consequence, Fellowship, Free Grace, holiness, License, motivation, Overcoming, Sin, Victorious

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii give an answer to a question about Free Grace. If there are no works or other requirements for eternal salvation except to believe for it, won’t that encourage people to take advantage of it (so to speak)? Won’t human beings then be in

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June 5, 2024

Does Lordship Salvation Offer Any Assurance? Also: Are There Degrees of Faith?

Assurance, certainty, Degrees, Faith, Fear, fruit, Levels, Lordship, motivation, Salvation

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about the assurance of eternal salvation. Does or can lordship salvation result in assurance? Does lordship salvation maybe even see it as a plus to lack confidence about eternal salvation? Bob and Mike will offer some answers and thoughts on

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March 19, 2024

Practical Ramifications of Assurance of Salvation – Part 1

1 John 3:16, Assurance, Fear, Hell, Interpretation, joy, motivation, Practical, promise, Ramifications, Salvation, Scripture, service

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Bob Vacendak are talking about the practical benefits coming from assurance of salvation. How many ways can the assurance of salvation help you in living the Christian life? Listen and see if you can count them!

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March 2, 2023

Can The Assurance of Salvation Be Something that Can Be Lost and Regained?

Assurance, Eph 2:8-9, motivation

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Ken Yates and Bob Wilkin answer a question about having assurance of eternal salvation. Why do some believe that not being sure of salvation is a good thing? Do they claim to believe this because it motivates Christians to live right? How well does this work? Aren’t there

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“This Is So Much Better” (1 John 2:3-9)

February 17, 2023 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 1 John 2:3-9, Assurance, Fear, motivation

Recently, I was asked to lead a three-week study on 1 John for a group of young American missionaries. I wasn’t sure where they were theologically, but was told that they would almost certainly lean towards a Lordship Salvation view of the book. Free Grace people know that this view of 1 John seriously distorts

October 31, 2022

Why Do Many People Have So Much Confusion About Assurance of Eternal Salvation?

Assurance, certainty, Confusion, Doubt, Facts, Faith, Fear, Feelings, Grace, Gratitude, Jn 4:10, motivation

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today Bob and Ken will discuss how Lordship Salvation falls short, especially in the area of assurance. In fact, could it be that many pastor/teachers who are proponents of Lordship Salvation are dead wrong when they suggest that having some doubt and therefore being on a “quest for assurance”

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The Water Will Turn Purple (1 Cor 6:9)

August 3, 2022 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Assurance, motivation, Sin

Many years ago, I attended a summer camp for Boy Scouts near an Army post. It had a large swimming pool. The Army provided soldiers as lifeguards. These soldiers warned us about using the pool as a bathroom. They told us that the Army had put a chemical in the water, and if we ever

Why Do People Feel Frustrated in Their Sanctification?

March 12, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Lyle Lange, motivation, Sanctification

As you seek to live your life for the Lord, what keeps you motivated? Do you ever feel frustrated at your progress—or lack thereof? Are you looking in the right places for motivation? Lyle Lange offers some insights: When Christians look to their own efforts for increasing sanctified living, one of two things will happen.